Does anyone want to explain to this douche that it usually takes a full fiscal year before any tinkering actually shows up in indicators? That would chop off two years of his 5 year time frame and force him to explain the wonders caused under Bush the Lesser.

Hell, Obama wasn't even President for the first f*cking year of that 5 years. What an asshole.

It's always good to see these articles every now and then, to remind us how farking clueless the right is when it comes to basic economic policy. Everything this guy said was wrong. It is truly a masterpiece of failure.

NewportBarGuy:Does anyone want to explain to this douche that it usually takes a full fiscal year before any tinkering actually shows up in indicators? That would chop off two years of his 5 year time frame and force him to explain the wonders caused under Bush the Lesser.

Hell, Obama wasn't even President for the first f*cking year of that 5 years. What an asshole.

Here's what I don't understand about all these "ZOMG HORRIBLE RECOVERY" things. Do people just not notice or care that this was a worldwide economic catastrophe, and the US has pretty much been the most successful in recovering? And that pretty much every other country has been MORE austere than us? Is there no lesson here?

tenpoundsofcheese:Let's see. I wonder if anything else happened in 2007, like the Dems getting control of the House and all that yummy overspending.

And wasn't Obama part of the Democrat controlled senate at the time? Didn't he vote for Democrat budget resolutions in 2007 and 2008, even though republicans warned them they would damage the economy? That's the way I remember it.

DamnYankees:Here's what I don't understand about all these "ZOMG HORRIBLE RECOVERY" things. Do people just not notice or care that this was a worldwide economic catastrophe, and the US has pretty much been the most successful in recovering? And that pretty much every other country has been MORE austere than us? Is there no lesson here?

You know who led his country through a good recovery during a depression?

Authors like this prey on ignorance. The miracle of "Reaganomics" was really just Paul Volcker's Fed cutting interest rates from about 20% in 1981 down to like 5% by 82-83. Unemployment came down, inflation was beaten, and the economy grew. Reagan could have done nothing except jack off in the Rose Garden for 4 years and the same thing would have happened.

Oh, and if you couldn't beat a sitting President who presided over the worst 5 years since the Great Depression, what does it say about you and the ideas you hold dear? They must be pretty weak, tired and played-out, actuallyl

muck4doo:DamnYankees: Here's what I don't understand about all these "ZOMG HORRIBLE RECOVERY" things. Do people just not notice or care that this was a worldwide economic catastrophe, and the US has pretty much been the most successful in recovering? And that pretty much every other country has been MORE austere than us? Is there no lesson here?

You know who led his country through a good recovery during a depression?

NewportBarGuy:I mean you are calling me a Nazi, right? Don't beat around the bush, son. Use your words.

Yea, but you're more this kind of Nazi, if you ask me.

In the meantime, Obama is in his second term now, Democrats hold a majority in the Senate, I think it's about time that they took some responsibility for the shiatty state of the Economy. Despite their promises it hasn't gotten better, and Pelosi stating that ending Subsidies on Oil isn't going to effect the "little people" is just crap.